Dried mice are a specialty of Fujian, the specific county is Ninghua.

Ninghua Dried Field Mice, also known as Dried Mice, is a famous Hakka snack in Tingzhou, Fujian. It is one of the eight major dried vegetables in western Fujian. Voles belong to the hamster family of the mammalian order, and their fur color is usually dark grayish brown, some of them are sandy yellow, and they feed on rice.

Late rice yellow ripening period - biting rice storage burrows, often at the foot of the field grass, digging hidden trails, crop damage is great. Ninghua is a mountainous agricultural county, so there are a lot of voles, people in order to protect the crops and capture the voles, and then the voles will be made into dried Ninghua voles.

Making process

(1) Dehairing. The captured mice are either steamed in a pot with hot water or baked in firewood ash, and as long as the fire is properly mastered, the hairs of the mice can be pulled out cleanly.

(2) disemboweled to remove intestines, stomach and lungs (liver and heart can be retained), the rat meat washed with water.

(3) Finally, smoke and roast the aroma with rice, rice bran or wood shavings, roasted to a saucy yellow or coffee color can be, but do not bake burned.

(4) with pork, asparagus, white radish, accompanied by garlic, ginger, sweet water wine, oil fried slightly burned and eaten.

(5) It can also be made into boiled rice.